October 2022

MIDWEST CITY – A repeat trip to the Class 5A State Fast-Pitch Softball State Championships will have to come through the consolation bracket as El Reno High School suffered an 11-1 loss to Carl Albert.

The Indians went 1-1 on the first day of the Region 1 Championships on the Titans home turf, run-ruling Ardmore 11-0 in five innings. El Reno, now 13-17 on the season, will face the Tigers again in an elimination game.

If successful, the Indians will have to defeat Carl Albert twice to earn their third trip to state in the past four seasons.

While giving up a noticeable height difference across the net, El Reno High School’s volleyball team rode a series of unforced errors by Del City to a 3-0 win over the Eagles.

The 25-13/25-11/25-15 victory was the third in the past five matches for El Reno, which improved to 11-14 on the season and 2-2 in the Suburban Conference standings.

El Reno trailed only once in the match as Del City committed 11 unforced errors out of the first 12 points in game one. The Eagles had a total of 51 errors over the three games including a service miscue on match point.

Last week’s 41-40 win over Noble came with a season-high 423 yards of total offense which put El Reno High School’s football team over the 1,000-yard mark for the season.

El Reno’s junior high football teams returned to Memorial Stadium last week after a two-week road swing to split a Suburban Conference doubleheader with Guthrie.

The seventh-grade team lost 36-32 despite a 65-yard kickoff return and a 30-yard run, both for touchdowns, by Leo Willis.

The eighth-grade team moved to 6-0 on the year with a 28-18 win, aided by a 30-yard scoring jaunt by Tahir Neal.

Redlands Community College’s golf team has been on a stellar roll after taking second place at the recent Oklahoma Baptist University Fall Invitational.

Playing the 5,803-yard Shawnee Country Club Course, Redlands carded a 36-hole total of 636 (313/323) to finish 13 shots back of the host school. Northwestern Oklahoma State (645), University of Arkansas-Monticello (648) and Seminole State College (744) rounded out the field.

Avenging an earlier one-goal loss to the Bucks, Redlands Community College’s soccer team earned its first road win of the season with a 3-0 shutout of the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain.

The victory came in the second of four straight road matches for the Cougars, who improved to 3-8 on the season and 2-6 in the NJCAA Region 2 standings – which is sixth.

El Reno High School held its annual All Sports Homecoming last week which included a parade through downtown with the theme “Game On” and royalty coronation before the game with Noble.

The EHS football team came through for the local crowd with a thrilling 41-40 homecoming win over Noble.

El Reno attorney David Halley will be the county’s next special judge.

Canadian County District Judges Paul Hesse and Jack McCurdy and Special Judge/District Judge-Elect Khristan Strubhar made the announcement of Halley’s selection Sept. 28.

Canadian County has two district judges – currently Paul Hesse and Jack McCurdy. Judge McCurdy earlier this year announced he would not seek re-election and elected to retire effective Nov. 30.

Current Special Judge Khristan Strubhar filed for – and won without contest – the bench being vacated by McCurdy.

A detention officer was fired after an investigation found she had allegedly stolen $570 in cash from two inmates at the Canadian County Jail.

Katie Denise Wade, 32, of Moore, was charged Sept. 27 in Canadian County District Court with embezzlement of state property.

Assistant District Attorney Walter Mengden alleges Wade “received money to be placed in the inmate trust account, and knowingly made false entries in that account received on behalf of the county.”